Information Highwaymen Will Follow the Cybermoney05/21/12 By John P. Mello Jr.

The digital desperados who infected more than half a million Macs around the world with the Fastback worm made headlines for several days this month, but they didn't make as much money as they could have made. In a blog posting at its website, cybersecurity software maker Symantec explained that the Flashback gang installed the moneymaking component of the worm in only 10,000 of the estimated 600,000 machines they infected.

An FBI report about Bitcoin leaked to a number of online media outlets earlier this month may have caused anxiety in some corners of the Internet, but not for one developer of the decentralized digital currency.[...]